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<blockquote data-quote="quadro" data-source="post: 785614" data-attributes="member: 12850"><p>It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Where shall I start??? Hmm, well let's start with this: PT absolutely do get overtime if they work overtime, just like a FT employee so no savings there.</p><p></p><p>Seniority. There are plenty of PT employees who have seniority and even if there weren't it wouldn't make a difference. I'll explain why in a moment.</p><p></p><p>Disability. You are correct on that one and that may or may not make a difference.</p><p></p><p>You keep talking about how PT'ers are pressured to work. Does that happen? I've no doubt sometimes it does however I see way more PT'ers asking for extra hours than not wanting to work.</p><p></p><p>So here's the deal. There is plenty of full-time work at FedEx as is evidenced by the number of FT employees and the number of FT postings each week. You would need to replace each FT employee with a PT employee if you cut the FT employee's work in half. Even if you somehow were able to work it so that you only increased by a third or a quarter, that's a lot of new employees. Even at starting pay, the cost to train those employees, the cost of all their benefits which, except for disability, are the same as a FT employee, the cost of extra swing drivers needed to cover all the extra routes created, all of that would far outweigh the savings from lower wages and disability.</p><p></p><p>The whole concept of making Express a part-time workforce is ludicrous anyway. It's not going to happen but to finish the thought, all the FT employees who are made to go PT are still making the same wage they were making as a FT employee so you've still got hundreds of topped out employees thus reducing any savings even further.</p><p></p><p>Shall I keep on going?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quadro, post: 785614, member: 12850"] It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Where shall I start??? Hmm, well let's start with this: PT absolutely do get overtime if they work overtime, just like a FT employee so no savings there. Seniority. There are plenty of PT employees who have seniority and even if there weren't it wouldn't make a difference. I'll explain why in a moment. Disability. You are correct on that one and that may or may not make a difference. You keep talking about how PT'ers are pressured to work. Does that happen? I've no doubt sometimes it does however I see way more PT'ers asking for extra hours than not wanting to work. So here's the deal. There is plenty of full-time work at FedEx as is evidenced by the number of FT employees and the number of FT postings each week. You would need to replace each FT employee with a PT employee if you cut the FT employee's work in half. Even if you somehow were able to work it so that you only increased by a third or a quarter, that's a lot of new employees. Even at starting pay, the cost to train those employees, the cost of all their benefits which, except for disability, are the same as a FT employee, the cost of extra swing drivers needed to cover all the extra routes created, all of that would far outweigh the savings from lower wages and disability. The whole concept of making Express a part-time workforce is ludicrous anyway. It's not going to happen but to finish the thought, all the FT employees who are made to go PT are still making the same wage they were making as a FT employee so you've still got hundreds of topped out employees thus reducing any savings even further. Shall I keep on going? [/QUOTE]
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